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But the issue is that super tuesday comes so fast. and by the time you get through that, over 40% of the delegates in this whole contest are already allocated, i think its over 60% by mid-march. if youre not succeeding in iowa and new hampshire, you know, you can be electable in conventional theories, but you can fall behind. we saw that in 2008, how hillarys numbers just moved so quickly in those later states purely based on how president -- later president obama did in iowa. >> yeah. >> um-hmm...

And we saw that in the 2008 how hillarys numbers moved so quickly in those later states purely based on how president -- later president obama did in iowa. >> yeah. and obviously iowa hasnt been the easiest state for biden. >> thats true. you know, i think there are a lot of lessons to take from the past race that is some of which robbie mentioned. the electability argument which obviously biden is holding solid on is one where back in 2008, hillary clinton was ahead of barack obama by 30 or 40 ...

Their focus to key battleground states. now a new quinnipiac poll is giving you insight on voter preferences. half of democrats and they want to candidate most likely to defeat trump, compared to 46% who say they prefer a candidate who must dominic will share their views and issues pay the poll also asking voters who would have the best chance to beat president trump. 49% of people since joe biden, while 17% say they dont know. the second most popular answer. there were a bunch of polls that cam...

There? >> so gabbard currently has only made the qualifications for the dnc debate in one poll, so shes close to the 130,000 mark but she still needs to go out there and convince people that she is a credible candidate. i think that was part of that. she needs to qualify for this debate because if she doesnt, we will have a bunch of these candidates still trying to make this electability argument to voters. but if they dont qualify, that argument will become even harder to ma one strategist yest...

Least amount of time, just 2:50 last time. he will be on stage alongside kamala harris, hoping to get more air time. kamala harris will be center stage with joe biden and a lot of anticipation about dynamics between those two after the confrontation last time around. joe bidens campaign is saying he plans to come out, be more aggressive. they think he was too polite in the first match-up here. he is anticipating multiple attacks but also wants to take his case to president trump. thats been part...

From ohio. im from youngstown, ohio. im from ohio. and, you know, thats up against biden, who whatever the sort of conundrum of electability consists of, its around him right now. >> is there a component of this too that lingers in the minds of a lot of democratic voters that biden would have won in 16? did they say that to themselves and therefore it conditions him to think hes the guy? >> i wonder, and jen, you would be better talking about this than even i would. but i kind of almost wonder i...

Voters, can this person beat donald trump, youre not going on stage with him, youre on stage with nine other democrats, how can you use the occasion to convince voters, yeah, this is someone who can take out trump. >> so many candidates are trying to make the case they are electable and they can beat donald trump, it reminds me of the 2016 republican primary and it was the reverse and candidates were trying to prove they could beat hillary clinton. i think theres only so far this electability ar...

Come back at trump. and biden wasnt doing that. >> its so smart. i have been saying this since the last debate. as much as there was an argument about bussing. it wasnt about bussing it was harris showing a democratic primary audience she knew how to land the punch. against a front runner and show she that democrats can say i can see her on the stage with trump. warren also was demonstrating tonight she didnt care about smacking back delaney. she wanted to show democratic voters thinking about t...

There were broken bottles from cans all around. >> the wallet was empty. >> exactly. one of the interesting things about warren and sanders and i tend to agree theyre not going to look for confrontations with each other and she has tried to differentiate herself from bernie sanders. she said hes a socialist. i believe in markets. in her own way shes made a bit of a tilt to the center even as her policies are quite progressive. that will be an interesting thing to watch as well. >> also governor,...

Candidate and what do they want to do more than anything else, they want to beat donald trump. so that really pushes his numbers up. also, hes had a lot of polls recently showing him at the top of the pact and, you know, the old saying nothing succeeds like success, if they continue to see that hes a leader, they will believe hes a leader and these polls show him beating donald trump by double digits. again, that plays into the whole electability argument so they are looking at joe biden and say...